Quote Originally Posted by sonatine View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Deal View Post

This is true, however we have the advantage of being able to see how it is fucking up the country next door. Canadians by nature are a bit more reserved and thoughtful versus arrogant and tribal. I can't see us going full on tribal politics like it is in the States. Various candidates have tried and to date none have been successful. Doug Ford is running for the Ontario Conservatives and he is the closest we have of the tear it all down, only I can fix it style comedian.

Trudeau slipped into power after our conservative government had power too long. Always good to switch it up after a few terms. He is going full hog on identity politics, equality of outcome bullshit, along with white privilege, native right tears, etc. The backlash is already starting. Our Universities are out of control just like your colleges. Guys like Jordan Peterson are having an amazing impact on voicing the displeasure of the majority. I think we will nip in the bud.

We have the additional advantage that the older white boomer racists are dying off fast enough and our youth are very multicultural.

We are a kinder, gentler nation and most here are proudly Canadian and more importantly non-American so when we see Americans acting like idiots (any vacation property world wide, we are proud not to be associated)

We won't be following along.

You're also fundamentally better educated, have a strong and defined national identity, and have exactly zero effective incursions into your political infrastructure from organized ultra-conservative Christian power blocks.
In fairness, ultra-conservative Christianity didn't really incur into the political infrastructure, it kind of has always been here. I mean, the first pilgrims were basically Christian fundamentalists who left England because their fringe ideas weren't being tolerated there. Our biggest homegrown religion is Mormonism.

I am not even saying none of the criticisms of the US and the right wing Christian base are invalid. I am just saying, regardless once it became so cool to hate on America and so much effort has been put into destroying our monoculture, then it really isn't surprising things have gotten so divisive. There is literally nothing to bring us together anymore. It is all about how we are all different and should celebrate our differences, and whatever made up the monoculture before was evil and racist. Even if another 9-11 happened here, I feel like half the people in this country would be secretly cheering and trying to spin it to blame the other side.